Today: September 15, 2024
Today: September 15, 2024

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Cooler weather in Southern California helps in wildfire battle

Cooler weather is helping firefighters make progress against three Southern California wildfires

September 14, 2024
Cooler weather in Southern California helps in wildfire battle
Environment|Europe|News

4 killed as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe

4 killed as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe

September 14, 2024
4 killed as heaviest rain in decades hits parts of central and eastern Europe
Crime|Economy|Environment|News

Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

September 14, 2024
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
Americas|Crime|Environment

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon

September 14, 2024
Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation
Environment|Science

Scientists say they've solved the mystery behind a mega-tsunami

Scientists say they figured out what caused a massive nine-day vibration that offers new warnings about human-linked climate change. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir explains. 

September 13, 2024
Scientists say they've solved the mystery behind a mega-tsunami
Environment|News|World

The Biden administration is taking steps to eliminate protections for gray wolves

The Biden administration has asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S. If successful, the move would put the predators under states’ oversight and would allow hunting in the Great Lakes region, which had been suspended by a court order

September 13, 2024
The Biden administration is taking steps to eliminate protections for gray wolves
Environment|News|Uncategorized

Report finds 'no evidence' Hawaii officials prepared for wildfire that killed 102 despite warnings

Investigators reviewing the emergency response to last year’s devastating wildfire on Maui say in a new report they found no evidence Hawaii officials made preparations for it, despite days of warnings that “critical fire weather” was about to arrive

September 13, 2024
Report finds 'no evidence' Hawaii officials prepared for wildfire that killed 102 despite warnings
Environment

An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green

An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green

September 13, 2024
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
Environment|News

After storms like Francine, New Orleans rushes to dry out

Hurricane Francine suddenly dropped an incredible amount of rain on New Orleans

September 13, 2024
After storms like Francine, New Orleans rushes to dry out
Business|Economy|Environment|News|Science|Technology

Metals-rich Kazakhstan seeks niche in battery supply chain

Kazakhstan aims to boost output of metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries and is issuing hundreds of new exploration licences to attract

September 13, 2024
Metals-rich Kazakhstan seeks niche in battery supply chain
Arts|Education|Environment

Jane Goodall inspires next generation of conservationists in Tampa Bay

Jane Goodall inspires next generation of conservationists in Tampa Bay

September 13, 2024
Jane Goodall inspires next generation of conservationists in Tampa Bay
Business|Environment|Technology

Occidental's 1PointFive secures funding of up to $500 million from US DOE

Occidental

September 12, 2024
Occidental's 1PointFive secures funding of up to $500 million from US DOE
Environment|Europe

Italy court orders retrial in deadly pollution case linked to ex-Ilva steelworks

An Italian appeals court overturned a 2021 ruling convicting 37 people and three firms for deadly pollution linked to the former Ilva steelworks on Friday and ordered a retrial, ANSA

September 13, 2024
Italy court orders retrial in deadly pollution case linked to ex-Ilva steelworks
Environment|Science

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow

Plants don’t just grow straight up. They can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. And studying these movements goes all the way back to Darwin in the 19th century.

September 13, 2024
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow
Environment|News|Opinion

Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions as attitudes toward wild predators shift

Colorado has spectacular scenery, but it comes with wild animals, and they sometimes wander into town. A ballot measure that would ban hunting wild cats is the latest test of public views on hunting.

September 13, 2024
Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions as attitudes toward wild predators shift
Environment|Health

Wild ginseng is declining, but small-scale ‘diggers’ aren’t the main threat to this native plant − and they can help save it

There’s a widespread argument that ‘poachers’ are responsible for the scarcity of wild ginseng. But a scholar who has interviewed diggers explains that most of them are good stewards.

September 13, 2024
Wild ginseng is declining, but small-scale ‘diggers’ aren’t the main threat to this native plant − and they can help save it
Asia|Environment|News|World

Typhoon Yagi: Asia’s most powerful storm submerges parts of Vietnam and Thailand

Typhoon Yagi: Asia’s most powerful storm submerges parts of Vietnam and Thailand

September 13, 2024
Typhoon Yagi: Asia’s most powerful storm submerges parts of Vietnam and Thailand
Environment|News

Firefighters gain ground on 3 huge Southern California blazes

Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles are gaining ground against the blazes

September 13, 2024
Firefighters gain ground on 3 huge Southern California blazes
Environment|News|Science

As storm Bebinca approaches, Taiwan uses AI to predict typhoon paths

As tropical storm Bebinca barrels towards waters off northern Taiwan gathering strength into a possible typhoon, weather forecasters in Taipei are using a new and so

September 13, 2024
As storm Bebinca approaches, Taiwan uses AI to predict typhoon paths
Environment

Memorial honors 81 animals killed in Prunedale

Memorial honors 81 animals killed in Prunedale

September 12, 2024
Memorial honors 81 animals killed in Prunedale
Environment|News|World

Los Angeles wildfires slow, still threaten suburbs

Wildfires that have burned dozens of mountain homes near Los Angeles slowed on Thursday with cooler temperatures but authorities warned the blazes still threatened suburbs.

September 12, 2024
Los Angeles wildfires slow, still threaten suburbs
Environment|News|World

A continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires

South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia,

September 12, 2024
A continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires
Americas|Environment

Takeaways from AP's story on the Ashaninka tribe's reforestation model in the Brazilian Amazon

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers more than 30 years ago

September 12, 2024
Takeaways from AP's story on the Ashaninka tribe's reforestation model in the Brazilian Amazon
Environment|News|Technology

An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening

An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening

September 12, 2024
An explosive California wildfire looked like a bomb went off from space – here’s what’s happening
Environment|News|Science

The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why

The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why

September 12, 2024
The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why

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